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Daniel Craig gets Indie Spirits Award nod for Infamous

This seems to be a big day, week and month for Daniel Craig news and I am only too happy to share all of it with you. The new James Bond has been nominated for a Film Independent’s Spirit Award in the best supporting actor category for his fine performance as a cold-blooded killer who happens to be gay in the Truman Capote biopic “Infamous.” As a blond and buff Craig dazzles the world as Agent 007, it’s nice to see him recognized for this smaller film which has suffered by coming out a year after “Capote,” a film with an identical storyline. But the film is solid and Craig’s performance as one of the killers Capote writes about in his novel “In Cold Blood” and seems to fall in love with is not to be missed.

Leading the pack in Independent Spirit nominations is one of my favorite films of the year, “Little Miss Sunshine” which earned five nods including best picture. Even though Steve Carrell, who played a suicidal gay man in the film, did ot receive an individual nod, his co-stars Alan Arkin Paul Dano did. Also nominated were co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and screenwriter Michael Arndt. This movie gem about a dysfunctional family on a road trip is out on DVD Dec. 19 with many bonus features ncluding four alternate endings, audio commentaries, music video and more.

And here is a well-deserved Indie Spirit nomination: up for the John Cassavetes Award, given to the best feature made for less than $500,000 are out filmmakers and real-life couple Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland for “Quniceanera.” Their film has several key gay characters and won both the grand jury prize and the audience award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Finally, up for the IFC/Acura Someone to Watch Awards, which includes a grant of $50,000 to a new filmmaker, is Richard Wong who directed the terrific “Colma: The Musical” which screened at the Outfest Film Festival in Los Angeles last summer.